To your calculators: the senators approved on the night of Friday to Saturday the revaluation of pensions in two stages next year, up to inflation only for pensions below the minimum wage. This amendment to the Social Security budget for 2025 was adopted by 231 votes to 100 and takes up the main lines of the compromise negotiated between Michel Barnier and Laurent Wauquiez.
Senator Pascale Gruny (LR), who carries this text, says that it “ensures an increase in all basic pensions from January 1 to the level of half of inflation”. This first increase has already been estimated at 0.9% by the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin. Retirees receiving a total pension (basic and supplementary) lower than the minimum wage “will then be revalued a second time to the inflation observed on July 1”, with the added bonus of “making up for the shortfall” over the first half of such period. so that they “will thus be fully protected against inflation”.
“Fair”, a “scam”…
This indexation will be complete up to “1,500 euros gross per month”. An intermediate level is also planned for “insured persons whose pension is slightly above this threshold”, who will benefit from a “reduced” revaluation.
Compared to the government's initial proposal, which wanted to postpone the increase in pensions by six months to save 4 billion euros, the new version “reduces the expected return by around 500 million”, specified the senator, judging “this fairer solution.
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Socialist Monique Lubin, for her part, denounced “a scam” which will result in “a dead and definitive loss for all retirees”.
